[bjl584]

People will often base opinions about certain makes and models of cars based on personal experience. In reality, it just isn't possible to own or drive every car that is out there for an extended period of time. Unless, you work for Consumer Reports or Car and Driver. Otherwise, what you see is someone saying something like, "I hate Ford. I had a Ford minivan, and I had nothing but problems with it." While that may be true, Ford makes dozens of different models and makes of vehicles. Painting such a broad brush about a company is unreasonable based on such a narrow experience. All cars, no matter who makes them, are machines. All of them have parts that wear down and fail over time. Nothing is invincible. There is someone out there that will have good and bad things to say about every car company and every car model. Everyone has had good and bad experiences with cars. Sometimes they are unlucky, sometimes they bought a model of car that was a lemon or had a history of component failures. But to say that a certain car company is no good based on a single or a handful of personel experience is like saying, the entire medical industry is no good because there were X amount of botched surgeries last year, or, the entire education system is no good because X amount of people failed out of school last year. Unfortunately, the world that we live in tends to paint a broad brush about everything.